humility, commitment to your art is important
Through this journey, I have learnt offering what needs to be said and what people want to say is a great responsibility.”
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c sharp s nature first found life, in the warmest of Earth’s lands, it is perhaps poetry that is one of the music’s world most natural and inspiring of voices that should have been found beneath an African sun.
Born in Welkom and raised in Soweto, C Sharp earned his nickname from his grandfather’s observation of how his grandson’s voice was ‘…like pure music.’ A powerful force in the young C Sharp’s life, it was also an indirect presence of his grandfather’s that saw him gain true understanding of the man’s words “whenever you feel discouraged sing a song, it will lift your spirit” as solace and counsel when upset after losing a much treasured present. Church saw him bringing his voice to the people of his faith and encouraged him to grow and become an artist in his own right, winning several singing competitions and further driving him in his musical dreams. A stint as backing vocals to several musicians, honing his ability to sing into a more powerful instrument, helped define it into becom-
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ing as enthralling as it is unique.